Eugenie Grandet. Honore de Balzac

to Mademoiselle Grandet. Eugenie will belong to the dandy. Unless this cousin is enamoured of some Parisian woman, your son Adolphe will find another rival in – ”

      “Not at all, monsieur l’abbe. This young man cannot fail to see that Eugenie is a little fool, – a girl without the least freshness. Did you notice her to-night? She was as yellow as a quince.”

      “Perhaps you made the cousin notice it?”

      “I did not take the trouble – ”

      “Place yourself always beside Eugenie, madame, and you need never take the trouble to say anything to the young man against his cousin; he will make his own comparisons, which – ”